Monthly Archives: June 2017

Woke up this morning and remembered Operation Overlord took place on this day 1944. It kind of snuck up on me even though I have been researching the battle some back in April and May I had not thought about the specific date.

The invasion was a real achievement on many levels and I felt with all the World War II veterans passing away it is time we remember them more and more. I heard on the radio later in the day a passage from a diary from an American soldier who landed at Omaha beach it was something to hear.
Never wargamed the landing at D-Day. I have done lots of World War II games. Italian campaigns, the Eastern Front, Western Front battles before the fall of France and later such as the battle of the bulge. I have even done an Operation Market Garden game before but never D-Day.

I admit to be in the planning stages of trip to Normandy to see the invasion sites. I would like to get to do it in 2018 but we will see if that is something that is done or 2019.